SAFETY / CAR CARE

Volkswagen scooped the most wins at the inaugural Gumtree Pre-Owned Awards. The top passenger car manufacturer in South Africa took home a total of seven awards, including  three First place wins, two Second places and two People’s choice awards. Gumtree found the best value performing cars per category by looking ...

  Polestar appears set to turn its plans into reality with the beginning of construction work on the new state-of-the-art Polestar Production Centre in Chengdu, China, where the company’s first model, the Polestar 1, will be produced.  This follows the announcement of the new Polestar brand on October 17, and ...

Volvo Cars and Uber join forces to develop autonomous driving cars   Volvo Cars has signed a framework agreement with Uber, the ride sharing company, to supply tens of thousands of autonomous driving compatible base vehicles between 2019 and 2021.  The base vehicles are developed on Volvo Cars’ fully modular, ...

Ford is pioneering a new era for its dealer network in South Africa with the launch of the new Joburg City Ford dealership in Newtown, in the heart of Johannesburg’s bustling economic hub. Besides being the latest addition to the Ford dealer family, the launch of Joburg City Ford represents ...

     For almost 45 years, Kempston Truck Hire has been regarded as one of South Africa’s most successful vehicle hire businesses, due to its long-standing commitment of offering customers tailor-made solutions. The company’s progression is also attributable to its robust fleet, of which FUSO Trucks plays a vital role. ...

Toyota said it will be rolling out an electric vehicle under the Toyota brand in the Chinese market in 2020 even as it stressed that the scope of a fuel-cell vehicle feasibility study will be expanded to cover commercial vehicles such as buses. For years, Toyota has developed China-made hybrid ...

Jaguar Land Rover has taken a big leap closer to bringing an intelligent vehicle to reality as it is taking part in the recent real-world UK’s first road tests for autonomous and connected vehicles .  The exercise taking place in Coventry  is the first on-road tests for self-driving Jaguar Land ...

 Ford Motor Company in conjunction with its dealer, Coscharis Motors, hosted members of Riders for Health Nigeria (Riders) on Ford’s Driving Skills for Life (DSFL) training programme. The event took place Friday,  17 November,  2017 at the Coscharis Motors head office  in Lekki, Lagos.  The DSFL programme is a global ...

The mega rally on road safety jointly organised by Nigerian Breweries and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has landed in Lagos. The rally which held at the Ojota New Garage in Lagos on Wednesday followed the  successful mega rally earlier held in Abuja. The Lagos rally, the second of ...

Continental is pushing the boundaries of vehicle connectivity as it strives to deliver next-generation smart mobility solutions for the automotive industry. “For Continental, holistic connectivity creates entirely new business models. In addition to our product business, mobility services will become the next key pillar of Continental,”  member of the Executive Board ...